Commentaire de Antoinedu59

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Commentaire de 171323

This will probably used as much as Plague Strike by Unholy Death Knights since Unholy Death Knights get lot's of disease effects.

Commentaire de Seref

I don't see how good this skill is for a Blood DK...seeing as how theres only 1-3 skills that give the target a disease<_< plaguestrike/degeneration

Commentaire de ytrewq

From the sounds of it, blood strike applies the damage bonus to any disease effect, not just your own.

Commentaire de d3nyd

Just from playing around with DK abilities, I've seen no reason to really ever use this skill unless you're hoping for a proc of something. Plague Strike does more damage (although it uses an Unholy rune too), but still more than any Blood Strike rotation could ever hope to achieve unless there were a ton of diseases stacked on a target.

Commentaire de 179440

I agree, but this seem like a dangerous attack for an Unholy Death Knight that can easily apply two plagues simply by using Plague Strike, wait for Blood-Caked Weapon to proc, use Degeneration and maybe one or two of the other plagues that cant be added as easy, and now you will do extra damage for 4+ diseases. The only thing that will make this hard is the speed at which your runes cooldowns finishes, but some talents seems to make it possible to pull of something like 4 or 5 diseases on a single target. Add another friendly Death Knight and some Gouls to the mix and you can get up to about 10 diseases on a single target and that should be more then enough to splatter most targets for quite a lot of damage.

Commentaire de d3nyd

Note: this skill (along with most strikes) now uses 10 Runic Power instead of Runes of any kind. This ability just found a use again.

Commentaire de ytrewq

3/3 Improved Blood Strike would increase the bonus damage of rank 6 from 163.8 to 311.22 damage per disease. An unholy dk could get some 13* (+?) disease effects fairly easily, which would make Blood Strike hit harder than Obliterate (even without full stacks) without consuming the diseases which would make you lose otherwise damaging diseases. And while Annihilation helps prevent that side effect, you'd have to spend 13 points in frost vs 3 points in blood. You have to remember, dks can dual wield so chances are that chance on hit diseases (Frostfever and Blood-caked Blade) will be applied fairly quickly and crypt fever/ ebon plague(x3) get applied when other diseases are applied so just from auto attacking, you're looking at 5 diseases, 6 if you count the summoned ghoul. With the exception of Imp Corpse Explosion and to a lesser extent Death and Decay (due to 30 sec cd), its really not all that situational. I'd say its about the same idea as a warlock stacking dots before shadowbolting, you're going to apply dots and debuffs anyway.

*Edit* That said, Blood Strike might not be as effective in pvp as fights might end before you get all the diseases on, and various dispel effects.

Commentaire de Thedrian

That's all very super-situational. I'd rather get the guaranteed huge hit out of an Obliterate rather than wait for 15 diseases to do slightly more damage with a Blood Strike.

yeah, but obliterate eats the diseases. So yeah, your getting a huge hit but then you have to reapply all the diseases again. Its bad if you are a unholy DK since alot of abilities/bonuses function on diseases.

Now if you know that you will kill the opponent, then that would be a good way to finish them off. Obliterate is however really good if your frost spec since it reduces the chance it eats the diseases by 90%.

Commentaire de Thedrian

@ d3nyd

The thing is, all specs benefit from this attack. You get bonuses to Blood stike in the Blood tree and in unholy tree. Which means your better off in frost spec. Although, since you think this skill isnt worth it, you'll have 1 less rune to work with since you cant proc Blood of the North.

Commentaire de Vorselia

Obliterate has a 100% chance to not remove any diseases now.

Talented for frost DK's of cause. Other DKs might not be able to pick up that talent.

Commentaire de lunateth

Commentaire de 202718

Isn't Blood Strike wholly inferior to Heart Strike? Is there any reason for DKs talented into HS to use this?

Commentaire de semlar

Heart strike is meant to replace this skill.

Commentaire de Avilister

Blood Strike is useful for non-Blood spec'd DKs. For example, as an Unholy spec'd DK, I use it to convert my Blood Runes into more useful Death Runes, which can then be used for more Scourge Strikes or Death Strikes.

Commentaire de EvilElpay

Blood Death Knight- Use Heart Strike. It is the upgraded version of this spell.

Frost Death Knight- Use Blood Strike to get Death Runes so you can Obliterate more often.

Unholy Death Knight- Use Blood Strike to get Death Runes so you can Scourge Strike more often.

Any questions?

Commentaire de GrumpyJester

Yeah, what about hybrid-specced Death Knights? I'm not specced deep enough to get either Heart Strike or Scourge Strike...

Commentaire de mrjxxly

Use Blood Strike to use up Blood Runes, generate RP and maximize your DPS.

Commentaire de 275028

It's easy to forget completely about this strike. It's replaced with heart strike and with the other specs you can use the runes for other purposes. I always found myself using my blood runes for blood tap and rune tap.

Today in a raid I used it for the first time in a long time and was suprised to see it pop the boss for over 3k.

If you are using a less powerful weapon or DW bloodstrike isn't all that strong. As you level and get better weapons this strike starts to become a good use of a global cooldown and blood rune again.

Commentaire de 278574

just a tip!dont use blood tap b4 using the blood runeit activates the blood rune if u have used it and blood strike isnt that bad....the way i m specced it says 58%weapon dmg when heart strike says 60% as a full blood i dont see much diffirence.

Commentaire de 154897

PATHETIC DKS NERF OR ........ YOUR MUM!

Commentaire de 175673

I don't know about the rest but I know Pestilence will spread Devouring Plague.

Commentaire de wuphonsreach

If you're a blood-tank and you want to use Rune Strike as a Runic Power dump, the following macro might be useful. Basically, every time you hit Heart Strike, it will attempt to also queue up a Rune Strike in a sticky fashion. Hence, the exclamation point in front of "Rune Strike".

It mucks around with temporarily turning off error sounds and suppressing the on-screen error that occurs if you try to queue up Rune Strike twice before it actually fires.

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Commentaire de 398060

is it true that in patch 3.2 they are going to increase the damage per disease of the blood strike to 50%? it's mean that blood strike is going to be stronger then heart strike and that will be pretty weird.

Commentaire de 181858

Not how it works...Say your weapon does 1000 damage40% of that is 400400 + he additional 305.6705.6Now you add in the 150% so it would be

~1750edit: 1764

Commentaire de hashmel

Thanks to Bloody Strikes Blood Strike is effectively obsolete once you gain heart strike even on single targets. So no hopes of Blood Strike being the underdog ability that makes a comeback with enough AP or anything...unless you've got a ton of diseases on the target of course.

Commentaire de Fleaman

Is Blood Strike Even useful for an Unholy Death Knight? i got Scourge Strike and Festering Strike? alot of the guides say just use SS and FS

Commentaire de 355194

Blood Strike is only useful for Frost cause they need to convert those Blood Runes into Death Runes to use attacks like Obliterate or spamming Howling Blast, as for Unholy, they only use Blood Strike till they learn Festering Strike, after that, Blood Strike is virtually useless from then on.

Commentaire de 558139

If the new change to blood the north changing the blood runes to perma death runes, it's going to be the death of this ability unless they make it buff another in some way.

Commentaire de Finbarr

Renamed to "Worthless Strike" in patch 4.1

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Commentaire de rlindse5

Renamed to "Worthless Strike" in patch 4.1

or, you know, early leveling strike.you don't get Anéantissement until level 61, though I suppose you could spam Frappe de mort as frost until then...Though you don't get Frappe de mort until waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay later at level 56 , so you are at least stuck using Frappe de sang for an entire level!Even so, especially at low levels with fast kills, the damage of a pair of Frappe de sangs will be greater than that of a single Frappe de mort, so it will boil down to "Do I want to..." A) Heal someor B) Kill it faster.

As for unholy, unless your punching out some odd pattern, you'll be using Frappe de sangs until you are level 64, as you won't have Frappe purulente until then.You gotta burn your runes on somethingandIt's not always about end game.

Commentaire de 798676

So sure -- heart strike is way more useful in most situations as a tank, but occasionally if I'm building threat on a single mob in the proximity of CC'd mobs, heart strike would really cause some problems.

So this is my alternate blood rune blower when heart strike or blood boil are bad options. Is there a better option you guys use to burn a blood rune without AoE?

Commentaire de Lands

So how do you guys saying it's worthless use your blood runes let's say when you DS'ed twice to heal in unholy? (I know you don't do it much in pve, but you can find yourself in such situation in pvp qiute often)